Green Below Fontenelle Friday-Tuesday May 15-18, 2020
Date / Time: Friday, May 15 July 26 Evening. Saturday, July 27 Morning. Sunday, July 28 Morning.
Location: Slate Creek and floats from below Weeping to Slate. Last day float from Farson to 6 mile.
The Characters: KK, Tammy, Anna. BK for last day.
Weather: Nice weather cold nights, warm days. Teens overnight 50s afternoon. First day colder, then warming. Some wind last day, overall.
Water Temp: Low 50s guess
Water Level: Around 1,700 cfs.
Water Clarity/Quality: Clear, but tons of moss on drift.
Moon Phase: Just after last quarter
Hatches: BWOs, midges
Best Flies: Sow bug, crane larva, worms, goldilox
Fishing: Another report a few weeks late. Brief summary for now and then if I get time later, I’ll elaborate. Went up for my birthday for several days with the girls. Stayed at slate creek, got one of the killer spots right on the water in the trees at the north end. Had the pram, went across and fished the confluence side channel drop the first morning with the worm and crane larvae. Hooked a few and pumped one found sows so put on the sow and it was immediate slayfest. Stuck a bunch there. Fished mornings and afternoons and bits and pieces and hung out with the girls. Did a float from below weeping rock to camp one day, stopped at a few spots and slayed on sow again. Fished to skunk one float and got them good on the drops outside of camps below bridge and above skunk. Mostly on sow, but some fish on worm. Initially some on crane but then it seemed they weren’t into it. Brian eventually joined and we did a short float to skunk one eve and he got a pig bow on the drop above skunk. Then we did a full day float from Farson to six mile. Nymphed a few drops and got them, but wanted to throw the big dry. I got a killer brown on a downstream eat along one of the cliffs. We fished the dry hard, but didn’t get any others and started to throw the gold and white. They were on it pretty good and we got some killer fish, Brian lost a pig he was sure was in the high twenties. It was on fire, but we stuck them consistently. Also got another killer brown on the nymph on one of the drops. I ended up with 3 pig browns, one big dry, one nymph and one streamer killer end to a great trip!
